Volunteers have been spending some quality time playing in the dirt at John Quincy Adams Elementary School in Dallas. The school is installing a garden that will not only provide fresh fruits and vegetables but also educational opportunities. The school is located in East Dallas, which is considered a food desert, an area that lacks access to fresh and affordable food. More than 90% of the students at Adams Elementary qualify for free or reduced lunch. With $100,000 in backing from Wells Fargo, REAL School Gardens, a non-profit that creates learning gardens, has selected five schools in North Texas for garden training and education. It's hoped to be a long-term relationship. "We partner with the school for several years to train the teachers to actually use their garden as a ...
Leaders in Manhattan broke ground last Friday on what will soon be a place for residents and visitors to gather for Farmers' markets and community events.
The Plaza de Las Americas will not only bring water and electricity to local vendors for the first time, but according to a StreetsblogNYC post, it will also serve to beautify the predominantly Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights with trees, lighting, benches, tables, chairs, and a fountain.
Another added benefit to this project is that it may help improve traffic safety conditions. StreetsblogNYC reports that at least six pedestrians and bicyclists have been injured on Broadway road where the new plaza is set to be built.
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A new community garden is laying roots in El Paso, TX, a predominately Latino community. Now in mid-construction, the Arizona Avenue Community Garden is located in central El Paso. Volunteers have been busy cleaning the area and installing multiple raised beds. Applications for neighborhood residents to get a plot in the garden are available on the facebook ...
Latina and black women are less likely than white women to pick their surgeon and hospital for treatment based on reputation, according to a new, Medical Express reports. Instead, they rely more on physician referrals and health plans for those decisions. The study, published in JAMA Oncology, suggests less-active involvement of minority patients with regard to selecting physicians and hospitals for their care. "Most women relied on referrals from their physicians for selecting surgeons, particularly black women and Spanish-speaking Hispanic women. In addition, minority patients were less likely to report reputation as an important component of their decisions about surgeons and hospitals and were more likely to select a hospital because it was part of their health plan," according to ...
Do kids eat too much pizza? According to a recent study published in Pediatrics, pizza is the 2nd greatest source of caloric intake for youth between the ages of 2-19. Researchers also learned that on any given day 1 in 5 kids eat pizza and that when they do, they consume an additional 230 calories, 5 grams of fat, and 484 milligrams of sodium. When asked by reporters from ABC-7 what he thought about the study's findings, Daniel Cisneros a student from Canutillo High in El Paso, Texas responded: "I'm not surprised whatsoever. I think kids do eat too much pizza and they don't pay attention to much of the health facts that are involved with it." Reporters at ABC-7 also looked at what a typical school lunch menu looks like for local schools and found that on average pizza is ...
The Salud Heroes video series shows how real people have made healthy changes for Latino kids across the country, to inspire others to make similar changes. Now the series can be called "award-winning." More than 40 awards have been given to the Salud Heroes video series and online Growing Healthy Change website, which are produced by Salud America!, a Latino childhood obesity research network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and led by Dr. Amelie Ramirez of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. The recognition is from the AVA Digital Awards, Communicator Awards, Telly Awards, Aurora Awards, Web Health Awards, HERMES Awards, Davey Awards, and W³ Awards. Just this week, Rick Carrillo, Salud America! TV ...
In San Francisco youth are working to raise awareness of the dangers that sugary beverage consumption hold, through the Open Truth Campaign. To raise awareness of the issue, youth have created their own poems and videos to discuss just how aggressively big soda companies are in their use of marketing tactics which target Latino and black youth. The campaign also features billboards which have been placed throughout San Francisco's metro system and will rely largely on social media use to prompt communities to act. To join the Open Truth Movement in speaking out against soda, access some of their resources below: Download Open Truth ads here.
Create your own ad, by taking a selfie & creating a "Big Soda, stop targeting me" flyer or poster.
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Latino parents, and all parents, want to keep their kids safe. But kids are fast, curious, and impulsive—it takes a few seconds for your child to find common household dangers, ranging from medicines to cleaning supplies. In fact, unintentional poisoning is the leading cause of injury-related deaths in the U.S. For National Poison Prevention Week, which runs March 15-21, 2015, local, state, and national poison control experts are highlighting the dangers of poisonings and how to prevent them. The CDC, for example, has a campaign in English and Spanish that advises parents to put your medicines up and away and out of sight, put medicines away every time (with the lid on tight), and teach children and guests about medicine safety. Spanish resources from the South Texas ...
According to California state law, all elementary school students should receive a minimum of 200 minutes of physical education (PE) every 10 days. For middle school students the number increases to 400 minutes of PE every 10 days. Unfortunately, Latino students, along with other minority & low-income students, are often denied access to physical education, despite widespread support for physical education among California’s constituents. In fact, The City Project reports that Californians not only favor PE, but they support it more than any other obesity prevention policy. When low-income students and students of color receive disproportionately lower levels of physical education and schools fail to comply with state law, The City Project says this becomes a civil rights ...
